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Antares Audio Technologies Announces Harmony Engine Evo
July 21, 2009
Advertisement Antares Audio Technologies has announced the availability of Harmony Engine Evo Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator, the next generation of the quickest, easiest-to-use tool for vocal harmony creation. Building on the power and ease of use of the original Harmony Engine, Harmony Engine Evo incorporates Antares' groundbreaking Evo™ Voice Processing Technology for faster, more accurate pitch detection, smoother, artifact-free pitch shifting, and seamless, natural-sounding throat modeling. And, with the addition of 5 channels of Antares' unique CHOIR Vocal Multiplier, Harmony Engine Evo allows the creation of huge vocal ensembles from a single vocal line. With four independent harmony voices, a variety of powerful harmony generating modes, humanization features for natural-sounding performances, and a flexible realtime preset system for harmony and vocal type, Harmony Engine Evo provides incredibly easy-to-use tools to quickly and easily produce virtually any vocal arrangement one can imagine. Key Harmony Engine Evo features include:
Humanize functions that provide selectable amounts of variation to each harmony voice for realistic, natural sounding results A Freeze function that allows a unique variety of backup vocal effects by making it possible to instantly freeze pitch and/or formant articulation at any point A Harmony Preset matrix that allows the creation of up to 15 complete harmony settings and the ability to instantaneously recall them, in real time or via automation A Voice Parameter Preset matrix that allows the creation and instant recall of up to 6 different "vocal groups" Five-channel output capability (host dependent) that makes it possible to assign or export the original input and each of the four harmony voices to their own channels for further processing "With the original Harmony Engine, we set ourselves the task of creating a tool that would let anyone who could hear the harmonies they wanted in their mind quickly and easily create those harmonies in a song or other project," said Marco Alpert, Antares VP of Marketing. "When we developed Evo Voice Processing Technology for the latest version of Auto-Tune, we immediately realized that it could also substantially enhance the performance of Harmony Engine, so we set about reworking the core algorithms to incorporate it." "Additionally, we all loved the result of assigning instances of CHOIR to individual Harmony Engine voices to create large vocal groups, but we were frustrated by the complexity of configuring most DAWs to allow it. So integrating five channels of CHOIR into Harmony Engine Evo was a proverbial no-brainer. With Harmony Engine Evo, huge vocal ensembles are only a few simple button presses away." Harmony Engine Evo is available for RTAS (Mac OS X and PC), VST (Mac OS X and PC), and Audio Units (Mac OS X) at a U.S. MSRP of $249.00. All Macintosh versions are universal binaries. PC versions are XP and VISTA compatible. Upgrades to Harmony Engine Evo are available for purchase and download by current registered owners of the original Harmony Engine. More Harmony Engine Evo information and a fully functional time-limited demo version are available at the Antares web site: http://www.antarestech.com.    (Click for close-up)Recent Antares headlines
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